The project “Fighting against Gender Based Violence and Pandemics through Economic Resilience” (FIGEBAVPER), initiated by AMEBE and financed by the United States Embassy in Burundi, helps women beneficiaries practice and learn about income-generating activities such as agriculture, livestock, and trade.
Women successfully learned how to make handmade bags through the FIGEBAVPER project.
“In our association we are involved in agriculture. This year, we are starting to grow peanuts, corn and cassava,” said Dorothée Niyubahwe from Kigamba commune in Cankuzo province and a member of the AMEBE-supported association “Mukenyezi tera imbere.” She says that her association already has enough land and that AMEBE instead supports them by giving them goats. “We are going to start raising goats,” says the young woman.
In the association “Twijukire umwuga,” also supported by AMEBE, they do weaving and have a field where they plan to plant corn and peanuts. When AMEBE arrived in Cendajuru, says another beneficiary, it brought together single mothers and widows who were raising their children alone before helping them choose a project to do together. Now they are raising livestock and farming. “AMEBE even gave us seeds.”
Veronique Nahimana from the commune of Cendajuru in Cankuzo province, representing the association “Dushigikirane in Cendajuru,” states that this association is in the process of realizing an agriculture and livestock project: “We have a field already cultivated, we are already raising goats. Another field is already ready for the cultivation of beans.” In some of the fields, she lets it be known that they have harvested and obtained a lot of money, and thanks AMEBE for helping them to realize these projects. “It is especially the association that helped us a lot.”
Expression of appreciation
Evelyne Ciza, originally from the Mugera area, Mishiha commune, Cankuzo province, runs the association “Mukenyezi tera imbere.” On behalf of the association, she thanked AMEBE, which organized a training session on the manufacture of handicraft bags for them. “Thank you to the association AMEBE who supported us in collaboration with the Embassy of the United States of America in Burundi.” She promises to share this training with others. “One word I can say is to really thank AMEBE who supported us to learn how to make these bags and the United States of America,” adds another beneficiary.
Overall, the women beneficiaries of the project “Fighting against Gender-Based Violence and Pandemics through Economic Resilience” in Cankuzo sincerely thank the U.S. Embassy in Burundi and the association AMEBE for providing them with extraordinary techniques and training in different areas. “We have reached a great stage of self-development. We ask them to continue to support us and to support others who have not yet reached our level so that they too can work in groups,” they plead.
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